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Breeding Biology of Atlantic Population Canada Geese in Nunavik, Northern Québec RICHARD C ARCTIC VOL. 66, NO. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2013) P. 301 – 311 Breeding Biology of Atlantic Population Canada Geese in Nunavik, Northern Québec RICHARD C. COTTER,1,2 R. JOHN HUGHES,3 PETER MAY, 4 PAULUSI NOVALINGA,5 JIMMY JOHANNES,5 LARRY J. HINDMAN6 and PAUL I. PADDING7 (Received 12 May 2011; accepted in revised form 30 January 2013) ABSTRACT. The Atlantic population of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis interior) experienced a sharp decline in numbers in the late 1980s. Management agencies in Canada and the United States responded by implementing several measures, notably closing sport hunting seasons for a number of years in most Atlantic Flyway states and provinces and funding a research project to study the nesting ecology and the factors affecting productivity of this goose population. In this paper we present the nesting phenology and breeding biology of Atlantic population Canada Geese on their tundra nesting grounds in Nunavik, Québec, specifically on a primary study area (32.8 km2) along Hudson Bay (1997 – 2003) and on several secondary sites (most smaller than 1 km2) distributed along the coastal lowlands of Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay (1996 – 2005). In the late 1990s the population rebounded, with strong increases in the population of breeding pairs and the density of nests between 1996 and 2001, followed by stabilization of both variables from 2001 to 2005. As a result, there was a near doubling in produc- tivity index (the number of goslings produced per km2) on the primary study area, from 17.9 in 1997 to 32.0 in 2003. Geese start laying eggs soon after snow disappears from their nesting grounds. On the primary study area, for all years pooled, mean clutch initiation date, clutch size, hatching date, and Mayfield nesting success were 27 May, 4.54 eggs, 26 June, and 67.3%, respectively. Among secondary sites along both Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay, we found a correlation between the annual average daily temperature for 4 – 24 May (the period leading up to egg-laying) and the annual mean clutch initiation date: higher temperatures were correlated with earlier initiation. Similarly, an earlier annual mean clutch initiation date was correlated with large mean clutch size. Key words: Canada Goose, Branta canadensis interior, Atlantic population, breeding biology, nesting success, productivity, Nunavik, Ungava Peninsula, Québec RÉSUMÉ. La population de l’Atlantique de la bernache du Canada (Branta canadensis interior) a subi un déclin prononcé à la fin des années 1980. Les organismes chargés de la gestion de la faune au Canada et aux États-Unis ont réagi en mettant en place plusieurs mesures. Ils ont notamment fermé la saison de chasse sportive dans la plupart des États et provinces de la voie migratoire de la population de l’Atlantique pendant un certain nombre d’années et financé un projet de recherche sur l’écologie de la nidification et sur les facteurs limitant la productivité de cette population. Dans le présent article, nous décrivons la phénologie de la nidification et la biologie de la reproduction de la population de l’Atlantique de la bernache du Canada dans son aire de nidification de la toundra du Nunavik (Québec), plus précisément dans une aire d’étude principale (32,8 km2) établie en bordure de la baie d’Hudson (1997 – 2003) et dans plusieurs sites secondaires de superficie plus modeste (dans la plupart des cas, inférieure à 1 km2) disséminés dans les basses-terres côtières de la baie d’Hudson et de la baie d’Ungava (1996 – 2005). À la fin des années 1990, la population a rebondi, le nombre de couples nicheurs et la densité des nids augmentant fortement entre 1996 et 2001 pour ensuite se stabiliser de 2001 à 2005. Par suite de ce redressement, le nombre d’oisons produits par kilomètre carré a presque doublé (indice de productivité) dans l’aire d’étude principale, passant de 17,9 en 1997 à 32,0 en 2003. La ponte débute peu après la disparition de la neige dans les sites de nidification. Dans l’aire d’étude principale, nous avons enregistré les valeurs moyennes suivantes (années regroupées) : début de la période de ponte : 27 mai; taille des couvées : 4,54 œufs; premières éclosions : 26 juin; succès de la nidification en mai : 67,3 %. Aux sites secondaires, en bordure de la baie d’Hudson et de la baie d’Ungava, nous avons relevé une corrélation entre la température journalière moyenne annuelle pour la période du 4 au 24 mai (période précédant le début de la période de ponte) et la date annuelle moyenne du début de la ponte: les températures plus élevées donnaient une corrélation avec un début de période de ponte plus hâtif. De même, une date annuelle moyenne plus hâtive du début de la ponte a été corrélée avec une grande taille moyenne des couvées. 1 Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, 801-1550 d’Estimauville Avenue, Québec, Québec G1J 0C3, Canada 2 Corresponding author: [email protected] 3 Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, 335 River Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3, Canada 4 Nunavik Research Centre, Makivik Corporation, PO Box 179, Kuujjuaq, Québec J0M 1C0, Canada 5 Nunavik Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping Association, PO Box 879, Kuujjuaq, Québec J0M 1C0, Canada 6 Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 828B Airpax Road, Suite 500, Cambridge, Maryland 21613, USA 7 Division of Migratory Bird Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 11510 American Holly Drive, Laurel, Maryland 20708, USA © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. Administered by the Arctic Institute of North America 302 • R.C. COTTER et al. Mots clés : bernache du Canada, Branta canadensis interior, population de l’Atlantique, biologie de la reproduction, succès de la nidification, productivité, Nunavik, péninsule d’Ungava, Québec Révisé pour la revue Arctic par Nicole Giguère. Ivujivik Salluit Nunavik Kangiqsujuaq Ungava Akulivik Peninsula Quaqtaq Québec Hudson Puvirnituq Bay Kangirsuk Ungava Bay Primary Aupaluk Study Area Inukjuak Tasiujaq Kangiqsualujjuaq Kuujjuaq Newfoun and Labrador Umiujaq dland 100 km FIG. 1. Location of the Canada Goose primary study area and the secondary sites (small circles) within the Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay lowlands on the Ungava Peninsula in northern Québec. INTRODUCTION of the breeding grounds on the Ungava Peninsula in Nuna- vik, in 1988, counted 118 000 (± 15 144 [SE]) nesting pairs Up to the 1980s, the Atlantic population (AP) of Canada (Malecki and Trost, 1990), but an aerial survey in 1995 Geese (Branta canadensis interior) was the most abundant counted only 33 995 (± 3045) pairs (Harvey and Rodrigue, Canada Goose population in North America, with a mid- 2012). This decline prompted wildlife management agen- winter estimate of nearly one million birds in 1981 (Hind- cies in Canada and the United States to close sport hunt- man and Ferrigno, 1990) and an annual sport harvest in ing seasons throughout most of the Atlantic Flyway in the Atlantic Flyway estimated at more than 400 000 birds 1995 and to produce the Action Plan for the Atlantic Popu- (Malecki and Trost, 1990). This population nests entirely lation of Canada Geese (Atlantic Flyway Council, 1996), in Québec, with more than 80% breeding in Nunavik, which detailed objectives and strategies for the recovery of Québec’s Arctic region north of 55˚ N, and the remainder the population, including monitoring and research needs. nesting in the taiga and northern boreal forest as far south A key objective was to document recruitment parameters as 48˚ N. Its major wintering areas are the Delmarva Penin- such as nesting phenology, clutch size, and nesting suc- sula of Maryland and Delaware and portions of New York, cess. The Action Plan therefore recommended a multi-year Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia (Dickson, 2000; study of the breeding ecology (primary study area) and Atlantic Flyway Council, 2008). In the late 1980s and early the implementation of an annual monitoring program to 1990s, this population experienced a dramatic decline in measure breeding effort and success at key locations (sec- size as a result of high harvest rates and a number of breed- ondary sites) on the Ungava Peninsula. The monitoring pro- ing seasons with poor productivity. The first aerial survey gram was established in 1996, and the research study was BREEDING BIOLOGY OF CANADA GEESE • 303 conducted from 1997 to 2003. This paper presents the key surveyed in only two years, and few nests were found there. reproductive parameters from the breeding ecology study On average, the Ungava Bay sites ranged in size between and the first 10 years of the nesting monitoring program, 0.25 km2 and 2.46 km2. 1996 to 2005. METHODS STUDY AREA Primary Study Area This study was carried out on the Ungava Peninsula in the Nunavik territory of northern Québec (Fig. 1) from Inuit from Puvirnituq, the nearest village (60 km dis- 1996 to 2005. This tundra region lies within the Arctic Eco- tant) to the primary study area, begin observing Canada climatic Province (Canada Committee on Ecological Land Geese in the region each year, usually in early to mid May. Classification, 1989), specifically the Southern Arctic Eco- Each year the field crew timed their arrival to coincide zone, an area characterized by herb-lichen tundra, a very with the start of egg laying, but in some years they had to cold, dry climate, and continuous permafrost (Wiken et al., wait to begin nest searches because of delayed snowmelt 1996). The highest densities of breeding pairs of AP Can- (Table 1). As soon as it was apparent that some geese had ada Geese are found on this peninsula in two regions: the initiated nesting, the field crew (five or six people, depend- coastal lowlands of eastern Hudson Bay and the coastal ing on the year) began to search for nests: members walked lowlands of southwestern Ungava Bay (Malecki and Trost, approximately 50 m apart and searched the study area sys- 1990; Harvey and Rodrigue, 2012), primarily between the tematically, with emphasis on a close search of the edges Inuit communities of Inukjuak and Akulivik on Hudson of wetlands and ponds.
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